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Seated anthropomorphic figure with skull on a mat, playing a flute

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Form: anthropomorphic, nude figure seated on rectangular mat, upper body as skeleton, stirrup spout on back Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed Stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: cream engobed, head and upper body as skeleton, depiction of penis, playing flute/antara and sitting on mat (rolled up on back), head ornament/covering, ear ornament Special: ear ornament, playing flute/antara (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 22,7 cm
Depth: 10,9 cm
Width: 20 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47893

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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